Hard Times - Oxford Dominoes - Level 3 Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important that feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe - a circus child - is left along in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teacher he facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa became a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and...

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The Aristocats (Ladybird Books)

Three kittens and their beautiful mother, Dutchess are captured by Edgar the butler who intends to drown them and claim their mistress's fortune. But the plans are foiled and the cats are rescued by Thomas O'Malley and his alley cat gang.

Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings

The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist. Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, and includes 'Sign of the Times', his essay against the mechanization of the age and the rise of the machines; the whole of 'Chartism'; and extracts from The French Revolution, Heroes and Hero-Worship, Sartor Resartus, Past and Present, as well as other pieces. The book also includes an introduction and notes by Alan Shelston.

The novel centres around the protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, who committed suicide immediately after the Second World War. Iris, now an old woman, recalls the events and relationships of her childhood, youth and middle age, as well as her unhappy marriage to Richard Griffen, a rival of her industrialist father. Interwoven into the novel is a story within a story, a roman а clef attributed to Laura and published by Iris about Alex Thomas, a politically radical author of pulp science fiction who has an ambiguous relationship with the sisters. 

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Utopia - Thomas More - P. Classics (2003)

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering.